Not to be that guy, but this is actually the most useless advice ever for someone who genuinely has a computer problem. Like, I like Linux as much as the next person, but asking someone to learn a whole ass OS from scratch on the OFF CHANCE it will fix their issue is not great.
i agree, but when they keep complaining about ‘file explorer is too slow’, ‘popups/ads are so annoying’, ‘cant open .tar.gz’, you can see that this all comes from the same underlying outdated system. i know all these problems can be solved in windows, but more will always appear
“Now I have 99 problems.”
Friend: *has computer problems
🤨
A lot of my friends are idiots lol
I haven’t owned a Windows machine in over a decade. If someone wants help, this is my response because I have not kept up with the changes, for lack of any need or desire to do so.
“Can you help me with my computer?”
“If it is running Linux or BSD, or you want it to, sure. If not, I’m not the guy for the job.”
IDK. I’m to the point where I don’t touch anyone’s phone or computer, because if I glance at it from a speeding car, I’m suddenly responsible for everything that suddenly “now doesn’t work” in their entire house, probably including the dishwasher.
I do use Linux, and I’m usually glad about it, but I wasted an hour last night trying to figure out how to change my microphone port to a subwoofer port, and never did solve the problem. Linux is awesome, but sometimes basic stuff is ridiculously difficult or impossible.
Does the physical port actually have that capability? My motherboard has a lot of audio ports but inputs cannot be outputs and vice versa
Probably not. Unless it’s bi directional combined port. But remapping audio ports like that seems like an extremely niche case I find support for it very rare in any case.
Yes, and it’s trivial to retask with the AC97 HD Audio program in Windows, but I couldn’t find an equivalent program for Linux.
If you’re using pipewire, try XDAJackRetask, I use it for that purpose.
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot.
Wouldn’t that just cause more problems?
Bro it’s so easy just restart the Xorg server Bro it’s obvious you just need to install the WAYLAND version not X11 for this program to work
I’m spooked
My wife was telling me that she saw an article about Microsoft supposedly planning to add a “small” banner for advertisements to the desktop on Windows and the essence of this meme was my precise response.
I prefer to explain in detail how to fix that and then say in one short sentence how easier I would fix it on Linux if it happened on Linux, which it obviously wouldn’t. It’s usually completely unbiased and I’m a popular person :)
Just built a pc from scratch and installing Manjaro was absolutely easy, the drivers just worked on install, no fiddling required.
It goes the opposite way when I have a problem and asking for help on linux
I went back to my Windows partition due to some performance issues with a specific game and it’s pretty frustrating to deal with. Icons on my taskbar I can’t get rid of, os hassling me about signing up for Microsoft products and overall a bit of a less polished experience than my Linux install out of the box.
You get a huge backlash if you advice Windows to a Linux user.
But somehow this is supposed to be funny?
Its funny because a lot of people do this even though its completely unhelpful in solving their problem.
Ah, the funny part is the cringe, I see.
I encountered it tons before, like people suggesting Chrome when the only browser that was supported was IE back in the day.
To be fair, Windows’ support is also unhelpful in solving their problem.
To be fair, using Linux is (usually) much more of an active decision.
the irony is the “just use another distro” advices
I used Linux for about a week, every game ran way faster (60 instead of 20 fps on ultra detail) - but all games were very unstable and crashed frequently (despite the clear performance advantage.)
I also had troubles getting the low latency kernel working properly for music production. I just could not figure it out. Something to do with WineASIO, JACK audio and pulseaudio. FL studio worked flawlessly, though some fonts were missing (‘easily’ fixed using winetricks and installing them)
On windows, all I had to do was install the focusrite drivers.
So for now, until these apps and devices have native support, I unfortunately am stuck with windows :(
A lot of these problems could be attributed to my computer specs, it’s a bit older:
8gb ram (plan to upgrade to 16 which is the laptops max), GTX 1050 ti, 2.8-3.4ghz i7
60 fps when you were getting 20 on windows…? Wat? Were shaders still compiling on Windows?
Yeah I know it sounds ridiculous haha, and I’m really disappointed that it didn’t work out.
What game were you comparing?
That specific case was a unity game , 7 days to die.
7DtD uses Vulkan on Linux for high performance.
Oh really maybe I’ll give it another try then
I also had troubles with Deep Rock Galactic and a native application as well. Maybe a poor configuration.
But the real thing keeping me from the switch is not being able to figure out how to properly use my audio interface for low latency real time production 😮💨
DRG is the same IIRC. I do not know the state of Vulkan drivers on Nvidia, but if you crash they are probably the issue. For low latency audio check Archwiki on proaudio. Got a Focusrite for christmas I am going to setup myself. Should be doable.
Most probably: wrong driver + background windows updates + background windows telemetry + background windows downloading ads + background windows Superfetch (SysMain) + background trial version of McAfee with windows
Win 7 worked pretty well on my 2010 desktop [Care2Quad 4GB DDR2] until a few years ago, when I just switched to Linux and didn’t care to look back.
So it is a comparison between an unconfigured Windows vs a configured Linux?
Geewiz, I wonder which one will perform better to their liking.
Yeah but unconfigured windows currently is the winner since it actually works, though I’d like to prove that wrong and properly configure Linux , however I’m in no hurry since I’ve had to format my drive twice already
Gaming on Linux can still be considered difficult in general. The main reason I don’t have any difficulty is because the few games I play are well supported on Linux, giving me few to no crashes. Playing Elite Dangerous (Epic version) on wine seems to be causing memory leaks over time, making me have to restart every 5 hours, but Linux supported games I get from GoG work perfectly for normal scenarios normal => Single monitor 60FPS.
Apart from gaming, Linux has been a charm. But I am one of those ppl who likes programming and creating my own solutions for problems (which fits well with Linux), so I can’t say the same to someone who just wants “a solution. Any solution”.
Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing.
That can be applied to most hobbies in general. Not using an automated coffee machine? Time worth nothing. Cooking rather buying takeout? Building your own pc rather than buying prebuilt? Drawing rather than generating with AI? Time worth nothing, that’s why.
The learning experience gained from the time worth nothing is also worth nothing
The thing is a PC isn’t a hobby, but a tool for most people.
The only thing Linux costs is your soul because you will be configuring and fiddling with it for all eternity.
… so your time …
Windows is only $price if your data and privacy are worth nothing.
Just today, just today…
My daughter wanted to do something trivial with windows, but did not know how. Online help referred to a button that did not exist in the application. I know at least three ways to accomplish the same action on Linux, and I know they just work.
